Create an Account
username: password:
 
  MemeStreams Logo

Schneier on Security: Conversation with Kip Hawley, TSA Administrator (Part 3)

search

Worthersee
Picture of Worthersee
My Blog
My Profile
My Audience
My Sources
Send Me a Message

sponsored links

Worthersee's topics
Arts
Business
Games
Health and Wellness
Home and Garden
Miscellaneous
Current Events
Recreation
Local Information
Science
Society
Sports
Technology

support us

Get MemeStreams Stuff!


 
Schneier on Security: Conversation with Kip Hawley, TSA Administrator (Part 3)
Topic: Society 11:37 am EDT, Aug  1, 2007

KH:

We do not publicize how often the no-fly system stops people you would not want on your flight. Several times a week would low-ball it.

Almost 20,000 False Positives:

The Justice Department's proposed budget for 2008 reveals for the first time how often names match against the database, reporting that there were 19,967 "positive matches" in 2006.

19,967 / 52 = 383.9
What that really translates to approximately 350 people per week inconvenienced. If they were arrested, deported, or their plot foiled we would of heard about it in the news.

But remeber what KH said about why they use the no-fly list:

Because it works.

Schneier on Security: Conversation with Kip Hawley, TSA Administrator (Part 3)



 
 
Powered By Industrial Memetics
RSS2.0